Boko Haram: APC fires back at PDP

The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday dared the PDP to urgently make available to Nigerians evidence of the opposition’s alleged involvement in the ongoing Boko Haram insurgency or forever shut up

”We have absolutely no hand in this insurgency, and we dare anyone with contrary information to publish such today. It is trite that he who alleges must prove,” the party declared in a statement in Lagos by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

“In the absence of any evidence, Nigerians will have no choice, but to conclude that the relentless finger-pointing by the PDP/Presidency is a ploy to divert attention from those who are actually behind this insurgency, those who see it as a trump card to 2015 and those who have been benefitting massively from the huge funds being allocated to security,” Alhaji Mohammed said.

APC said that the PDP accusation was made within the framework of its plan to frame up the opposition and clamp down on its leaders ahead of the 2015 polls , having realized that it (PDP) cannot possibly win the elections owning to its appalling record of failure.

”Otherwise, how can the PDP-led federal government claim to have ‘evidence of meetings held outside the shores of the country’ to violently overthrow the government of President Jonathan, and yet refuse to make such evidence public or arrest and try those involved? Or is it only the riotous spokesman of the ruling party who has the evidence?” the party queried.

Besides,the APC slammed the PDP for suffering from selective amnesia by its warped interpretation of APC’s statement, which pointed out to the ruling party that President Jonathan is not the first minority Nigerian leader, hence the people should be spared the boring reference to his ethnic origin.

It said:”It is a reflection of PDP’s diabolical mind that it only picked out the former minority leaders who are soldiers and left out the name of a former civilian leader. We mentioned three former leaders who are of minority ethnic stock: Tafawa Balewa (Sayewa), Yakubu Gowon (Angas) and Sani Abacha (Kanuri).

“Curiously but not unfathomably, the PDP dropped the name of Balewa and then extrapolated from the fact that we mentioned two former military leaders that we are comparing a democratically-elected President with defunct military dictatorships. This can only be the product of a contorted mind. Good a thing, Nigerians understand better and will not be fooled by such a sickening stretch!” APC said.

The party reiterated its earlier statement that the only reason this insurgency has persisted is the incompetence, cluelessness, inferiority complex and collusion of the presidency.

”First, we heard from no other personality than President Jonathan himself that his cabinet is infested with Boko Haram. Then the PDP started pointing fingers at some imaginary opposition leaders as being behind the insurgency, and now the President has openly admitted his own incompetence by saying his administration has been treating terrorism with kid gloves.

”Pray, where in the world can any battle against terrorism be won when the government is treating such with kid gloves? Need we ask why the government has failed woefully to tackle terrorism in Nigeria? Need we ask why the government has patently ignored all suggestions from us and many Nigerians on how to tackle the terrorists rampaging in the North-east?” it asked.

APC said that the best way to tackle the insurgency in the North lies in developing a discernible counter-terrorism strategy that will clearly identify the multiple means for preventing, responding and defeating terrorist groups, including the alignment of political, military, social and economic instruments and objectives; improving intelligence gathering; de-radicalizing the affected areas; and investing in research that will give more insight into the different aspects of Boko Haram, including its ideology, leadership structure, profile of members, internal organization, sources of funding and weapons and links to diaspora.

It also stressed the need to widen the scope of Nigeria’s response to include the sub-regional bloc ECOWAS and the continental body African Union, especially since Boko Haram has assumed a regional dimension; the need for a Marshall Plan of sorts for the North-east, “not the paltry 2 billion Naira which the FG provided as recovery fund to the six North-east states, at least four of which are worse-hit by the insurgency.”

Our president goofed by saying that he can no longer treat boko haram with kid gloves. So he has been treating it with kid gloves and deceiving Nigerians. Indeed we need alternative government in Nigeria. Pdp’s cup is full.

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it shows how his advisers have been telling him what to do, he does not sound good and he is not a president that is very outspoken he is so speechless.

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The truth is that PDP keep on supporting insurgency in the country so that she will has easy ride on 2015. I can’t imagine a party using bloodshed in her own country as an opportunity to gain electoral victory over opposition party this is too dangerous for the innocent people of this country,

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pdp and jonathan lacks alot, it seems they liked the killing in the north,when this same government is not able to stop the killing how did you want the north to vote for you, nigeria is not going to be deceived by this clueless government.

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how can the ruling party just go on air and tell nigeria that apc is behind the boko haram that they are the sponsors it shows how gej and his party lacks myopic. when you don’t have evidence you are now making allegation against the opposition.

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how can pdp make such statement, nigeria knows that this same boko haram have been killing before apc was formed. pdp should stop making unnecessary allegation on here. nigeria is not going to be fooled by their nonsense talk.